Abstract We introduce the Transregional Collaborative Research Centre “Companion-
Technology for Cognitive Technical Systems”—a cross-disciplinary endeavor towards the …

This work-in-progress paper describes our project SMARTKITCHEN, an interdisciplinary
research project focusing on interactive display deployment in the kitchen-in particular …

Companion-technology enables a new generation of intelligent systems. These Companion-
systems smartly adapt their functionality to a user's individual requirements. They comply …

Projectors most likely will be embedded into the next generation of mobile devices, and thus
projecting pictures and videos into the physical world will be an important use case …

Today, the smartphone is the main device for notifying the user, for example, about incoming
messages or upcoming appointments. However, we envision that in the near future Internet …

This article deals with a novel multi-screen interactive TV setup (smarTVision) and its
enhancement through Companion-Technology. Due to their flexibility and the variety of …

Until now, research on projector-camera systems had only concentrated on user-interaction
within a lab-environment. As a result of this, there are very limited insights into how such …

Interactive tabletops or projections became widely utilized in schools, museum exhibitions or
conference rooms to teach and illustrate dynamic artifacts or support talks. In such …

Embedding computational capabilities in everyday objects enables novel interaction
concepts that are seamlessly integrated in users' everyday tasks. We conducted an …

This paper describes a novel device called the" Stick User Interface", comprised of a robotic
projector-camera system, an onboard digital computer connected to the Internet, sensors …